OpenWebReviews 49

This has been really "fun" to deal with on Yahoo News, apparently a dollar amount is "all caps" and thus is not allowed.

Good work, Orwell would be proud, except the execution is very poor.

I commented on an post, including a link to a news article that ran contrary to what the post was saying. I included no words of my own. Just a link, pointing to a clear example of obvious, undeniable counterevidence, trying to be a bit humorous. The post was taken down for "violating community guidelindes". It was a link to a news article, I included no words of my own, zero editorialization, but it was rejected. Furthermore, there is no recourse once you've been 'rejected'. No appeal process, no ability to talk to a person. Abysmal product and site, unwilling to do even the bear minimum. Absolutely pathetic from OpenWeb.

No matter what I post, my comments are always rejected. I can post: "Great article," and the comment is rejected and I'm told that I have violated "Community Standards," which I clearly have not. Additionally, every appeal is auto-rejected. Despite saying a moderator will be review my appeal, every appeal is rejected, no matter the content, within minutes. How is this NOT lying to people? How are companies allowed to tell you they do something, then NOT to that thing?

OpenWeb has 'shadow-banned' me on FoxNews. No explaintion, no recourse, no replies from OpenWeb feedback, nothing but silence.

What a sleazy practice of censorship by OpenWeb, and FoxNews allows them to do it.

OpenWeb provide automated comment moderation for Yahoo! Since they were added every single comment I've made has been automatically rejected supposedly because they "violate community guidelines" regardless of the comment. I've literally said "Hello everyone, hope you all are having a great day!" and it's been rejected. I never use foul language and I love everyone, but I am politically moderate and independent so I suspect that OpenWeb is being used to "weed out" moderates and conservatives. I've used Yahoo for nearly 20 years and all of a sudden the comment community goes from center right to far left since OpenWeb takes over the comments? Not possible. What IS happening is anyone who points out the errors (and often out-right lies) in Yahoo's "news" is being silenced to give the appearance that most people are far Left. Their "appeals" process is just more smoke and mirrors as I've asked politely a dozen times for someone to actually LOOK at the comments being rejected and for the past year I've never gotten a reply or even a notice saying I've been banned or barred from commenting. It's disgusting that Yahoo has sunk this low. Hard to believe they were ever the Internet's number one website.

They push antisemitic, white supremacists and foreign terrorist threats. Someone can low key threaten to attack America, say something about Jewish folks or claim white supremacy without an issue.
Example claiming all black and jewish are uneducated is acceptable on openweb.
But replying at least you can admit that you're incapable of complex thought is not acceptable.
If you're an American and particularly Jewish, I would fear what openweb is doing to us

Adolf and Stalin are green with envy over the level of censorship OpenWeb practices. Shadow-banning, poor coding (reviews just spinning for hours but never post) and a list of "discussion standards" that Jesus Christ couldn't even meet. Avoid ALL websites using OpenWeb and make sure to tell them why.

OpenWeb is a commenting system used by Yahoo News. Yahoo news largely leans right, politically, and the OpenWeb AI comment filtering system amplified rightwing commentary and restricts comments that challenge these ideas too strong. A shovel is a shovel in the real world. In OpenWeb's world, the shovel COULD BE considered offensive so you must refer to it as a garden implement. This censors the true meaning of your comment. People no longer are certain you are talking about a shovel. And when this is about political ideas it becomes very difficult to get a comment posted saying anything real without it getting rejected. I included a screenshot of what was an already sanitized comment about gangsta rap because I was so incredulous that it was unacceptable. And it doesn't improve the commentary. Yahoo News is very racist and it's amazing Yahoo execs want to be associated with it. [I did not purchase anything]

Have fun replying to someone who responds to your comments, or going back and reading your own comments, or checking to see people's reactions to them. Because why would you want to do any of those things in an online forum/comment section. The comment moderation patterns are absurd to the point of near randomization. Troll accounts and sock puppet operations are just as rampant as they were before Yahoo made the switch. Openweb is an awful platform.

The OpenWeb platform is crap. It freezes, unfreezes, then freezes again. When clicking on a reply to one of my comments, the comment is only briefly displayed, before it vanishes in the list and often never to be found again. The browser will often throw an error, when OpenWeb sh.its its pants. It sucks donkey balls and makes every site worse that it touches. The over-the-top censorship is another issue.

This company and their forum platform sucks, Yahoo made a massive mistake by contracting with these inept morons who use AI to moderate posts, they suppress users and they leave, this AI moderation actually prevents posts, this is the worst forum platform ever. I have run national forums as an administrator for decades, so I know what I am talking about, they value spambots more than actual human posts, Open Web is Death Web.

I got an email from OpenWeb rejecting after ten days my comment on a Yahoo opinion article about Ukraine. I'd merely suggested in my comment that "perhaps a different and more historically informed perspective" than that provided in the Yahoo-reproduced TIME article might be obtained by perusing David Stockman's latest article at antiwar.com on the history of Ukraine. I linked Mr. Stockman's article so that readers could judge for themselves. That was the entire extent of my comment. Mr. Stockman, a former two-term Michigan congressman (from my hometown district back in the day) and OMB director, has a degree in history from my undergraduate alma mater, Michigan State, and he tends to do his homework on such subjects, as do I (Ph.D., English, University of Illinois). I don't necessarily agree with his political views on many subjects (he's a traditional Republican, fortunately not a neocon, while I'm a Progressive Democrat), but I respect his analyses, especially when it comes to the military-industrial complex and the often Wall Street-driven corporate media on certain subjects. To dismiss out of hand the complicated and divisive history of Ukraine, the role of NATO, the coup in 2014, the eight-year civil war in the Donbas, and all that gradually built the unfortunate context for the current war in Ukraine seems willful ignorance and intellectual dishonesty, which will make any future (and essential) negotiated settlement all that much harder.

It decreases web traffic to sites and steals data. When requesting your data, it's given in an unopenable format.
If you want less visitors to your site, use openweb

The service lacks methods for posters to challenge why a post is against community standards. It is far harder to actually ask meaningful questions on a topic than to insult other users. They seem to rely on automated dictionaries which are lacking the subtleties of the way the language is used in the USA. Simply does some automated review of the post and if it rejects gives no feedback on what the violation was. This makes it worse than useful as a tool because it do nothing but aggravate the people using it.

If you want to upset your users, this is the service for you. They will ban comments for no reason. I will stop visiting any site that uses this garbage service.

They killed the traffic on Yahoo comments. I won't say that it's political because it happens to everyone. Before OpenWeb, the Yahoo stories could get a thousand comments. Now, they are lucky to get a handful. You can only give a Big Brother is watching your neutral reply to anything or your comment vanishes. Nobody wants to read that.

You can see a real review on this rumble video, at about 15 mins in: https://rumble.com/vm6yi3-openweb-blows-chunks-and-more.html

In sum, they tormented them over every comment, they responded each time, and then they used a third party to decide to get rid of them. So if you are a loyal customer, they'll get rid of you when it suits their leftist agenda.

Also there is a lying review here that they don't allow "criticism" of Israel. They are leftists, they are day and night supporting anyone against Israel. Straight out Nazi conspiracies they ban, gives them credibility to ban normal people, but real supporters of Israel are consistently banned, don't write "Rav Kahane was right" on their platform if you want to be there.

I don't go out of my way to review things, but since I can't comment this on the Daily Wire website, because OpenWeb will just delete me, rating the website here is basically my only option to say anything about it publicly.

Far left leaning, encourages communist progressive ideas and deletes everything else. Closeweb more fitting as a name.

Since AOL has stooped to new low of hiring a group to corral those that oppose Liberal and bullying tactics. I have been black-balled for over a week by providing my response to a comment from..."Like you make you look like a fool here?! " as a reply to a person commenting this phrase... """" I would love to see that... The Orange Pig doesn't have enough discipline to sit through Q/A... Please make it happen. I want to see him make a fool of himself again..." ( the Orange Pig referred to was/is former President of the United States Donald J. Trump) But the original person who posted their comment was allowed to continue to post comments. But I am not allowed to post another word, and that has been over a week so far. And OpenWeb has failed in responding to my "Feedback" feature which is located belwo each comment section.